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'Hamilton' is revolutionary in terms of writing.
Chance The Rapper
Writing
Terms
Hamilton
Revolutionary
One of the ready advantages of writing a road or quest story is that it mirrors the experience of writing a novel.
Chang-Rae Lee
Experience
Writing
Mirrors
Road
Advantages
Ready
Quest
Story
Novel
I don't like to use writing assignments, exercises. I think too often people get comfortable writing in that vein, but you can't go on to write a novel comprised of short writing exercises.
Chang-Rae Lee
You
People
Writing
Think
Too
Write
Vein
Like
Comfortable
Exercises
Go
Get
Often
Short
Use
Novel
Assignments
My writing day follows my family's day. I get a good few hours in the mornings when the kids are out of the house. And I don't work at night any more. I like to see my family.
Chang-Rae Lee
Work
Good
Day
Family
Writing
Few
Kids
Out
See
Follows
More
Mornings
Like
Hours
House
Get
Any
Night
I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.
Chang-Rae Lee
Teacher
Me
Writing
Physician
Think
Directive
Prime
Often
Which
Harm
I write on a computer. On breaks, I'll make myself green tea. I don't want something too caffeinated. I guess I don't believe in chemical enhancement of my writing. Just slight, but nothing crazy.
Chang-Rae Lee
Myself
Crazy
Writing
Nothing
Tea
Believe
Too
Guess
Slight
Something
Computer
Write
Make
Chemical
Green
Just
Want
Breaks
Enhancement
I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions.
Chantal Kreviazuk
Writing
Emotions
Made
Melancholy
Range
About
Point
Stuff
Cover
Just
Anymore
Wide
Wide Range
I freely admit I know nothing about television or writing for the screen.
Charlaine Harris
Writing
Nothing
Television
Admit
About
Freely
Know
Screen
Public school teachers from every corner of America post classroom project requests on DonorsChoose.org. Requests range from pencils for a poetry writing unit to violins for a school recital to microscope slides for a biology class.
Charles Best
Class
Writing
Post
School
Every
Biology
Corner
Recital
Project
Slides
Range
Pencils
Classroom
Poetry
School Teachers
America
Microscope
Public
Requests
Teachers
Public School
Unit
Donors are sick of writing that $200 check to the Red Cross and not knowing whether it goes for the executive director's salary or the office rent.
Charles Best
Director
Writing
Not Knowing
Sick
Cross
Red
Check
Knowing
Executive
Rent
Salary
Office
Goes
Donors
Whether
When I say that basically writing is a hard hustle, I don't mean that it is a bad life, if one can get away with it. It's the miracle of miracles to make a living by the typer.
Charles Bukowski
Life
Writing
Miracles
Living
Say
Bad
Miracle
Hustle
Make
Get
Mean
Hard
Away
Basically
When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can't write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the 'i's' small.
Charles Bukowski
Love
Writing
Style
Spring
Think
Plots
Magazine
About
Poems
Small
Write
Writers
Written
Learned
Cliches
Because
Modern
Done
Worked
Many
Keep
Slang
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
Charles Caleb Colton
Writing
Will
Difficulty
Our
Ease
Admiration
Fine
Proportion
Always
Real
Apparent
I enjoy writing.
Charles Cumming
Writing
Enjoy
Writing doesn't come real easy to me. I couldn't write a novel in a year. It wouldn't be readable. I don't let an editor even look at it until the second year, because it would just scare them. I just have to trust that all these scraps and dead-ends will find a way.
Charles Frazier
Me
Trust
Writing
Will
Year
Way
Would
Easy
Find
Scare
Write
Come
Look
Until
Because
Editor
Real
Scraps
Just
Them
Even
Novel
Second
While writing 'Cold Mountain,' I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early map of North Carolina. Overlaying it, though, was an imagined map of the landscape Jack travels in the southern Appalachian folktales. He's much the same Jack who climbs the beanstalk, vulnerable and clever and opportunistic.
Charles Frazier
Writing
Mind
Clever
Cold
Worlds
Carolina
Though
He
Wrote
Vulnerable
Climbs
Mountain
Southern
Jack
North
North Carolina
Same
While
Much
Held
Landscape
Appalachian
Who
Map
Maps
Travels
Early
Two
Imagined
I love writing with other artists, I really do. Because you can try to guess what they would want to say and how they would sing it.
Charles Kelley
Love
You
Writing
Try
Other
Guess
Say
Would
Sing
Because
How
Artists
Want
Really
I think there are some songwriters who are just brilliant who can write and then I think there are some songwriters who can like me I have a problem writing chorus lyrics but I can write a song in a story like that.
Charles King
Me
Song
Writing
Problem
Brilliant
Think
Lyrics
Some
Write
Songwriters
Like
Just
Story
Then
Who
Chorus
I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
Charles Kuralt
Good
Communication
Writing
Reading
Believe
Think
Good Writing
Derivative
I don't feel when I'm writing that I'm drawing from any other writer, but of course I must be. The writers I've admired have been not so very different from myself: Evelyn Waugh, for example, that kind of crystalline prose. And I've always admired W. Somerset Maugham more than any other writer.
Charles McCarry
Myself
Writing
Example
Other
Drawing
Kind
Must
Admired
More
Writer
Writers
Prose
Feel
For Example
Course
Always
Been
Very
Than
Any
Different
I like learning things, and I like that writing comics is an excuse to look into new stuff and research and learn new things and hopefully put them in books.
Charles Soule
Learning
Writing
New Things
Research
Books
Hopefully
Put
Stuff
New
Like
Excuse
Look
Learn
Comics
New Stuff
Them
Things
These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for three or four days busily employed writing an account of our journey for the Governor's information.
Charles Sturt
Journey
Writing
Three
Matters
Our
Temporary
Having
River
Had
Days
Employed
Arranged
Been
Governor
Account
Information
Busily
Near
Four
I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way.
Charles Van Doren
Life
Work
Writing
Back
Slide
Way
Out
Possible
Hoped
Would
Would-Be
Slowly
Had
Always
Wanted
Public
Work Out
Public Life
Teaching
Things
Whenever I'm writing a song, if I have an idea for the music video, that's how I know it's a good song.
Charli XCX
Music
Good
Song
Writing
Music Video
Good Song
Idea
Know
How
Whenever
Video
I started writing my own things when I was about 8.
Charli XCX
Writing
Own
About
My Own
Things
Started
I'm going to build an empire. I'm always writing for someone else. I want to be someone who has her fingerprints all over the pop charts.
Charli XCX
Writing
Build
Else
Someone
Fingerprints
Charts
Empire
Over
Always
Going
Want
Pop
Who
Her
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